Congrats to Fred Sharifipour for making it here to TodaysRat. Fred Sharifipour successfully lowered the class bar for Saratoga Springs NY by hosting the sleazy "Girls Gone Wild Tour" at the once great former "Metro" nightclub. The current club, named "Mare" hosted the sleazebag Girls Gone Wild group as part of a "Wildest Bars in America" video shoot, undoubtedly heading for a reality TV show or scummy video to be sold via bawdy TV infomercials.
Sharifipour also owns & operates two Albany clubs called "Tryst" & "Plastic". I think from the names of these 2 clubs that we can see a common marketing theme going here...
read the following article
By MARK O'BRIEN
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Girls Gone Wild visited downtown Saratoga Springs on Friday night, hosted by MARE on Maple Ave. The event was billed as a wild and crazy party with the best people in Saratoga, but not everyone was excited about the festivities.
News 10 Cameras were not allowed inside MARE, but partygoers saw no problem in having Girls Gone Wild in the city.
"Why isn't it?" one man asked rhetorically. "Think about how much money they're going to bring."
TODAYSRAT : Really? think about it...How much and who cares? At the expense of the Cities reputation?
"It's 2010," said one woman. "It doesn't really matter."
TODAYSRAT: It doesn;t matter why? because Saratoga Already Jumped the shark?
MARE says the group is in town as part of the "Wildest Bars in the US" tour, criss-crossing the country in the hottest cities and getting video of the best clubs. Organizers were quick to point out that this was about the club, not the controversy associated with Girls Gone Wild.
Fred Sharifipour of MARE told News 10 off camera," It's not the girls flashing people from 10 years ago. It's a brand. They're not bringing girls, they're not bringing lewd acts, and I wouldn't stand for it either."
TODAYSRAT: Really? then why is EVERY Girls Gone Wild commercial on TV consist of young girls acting lewdly in public?? I think we know what the brand is
The bar also said Saratoga was lucky to get them to come, but not everyone agreed.
"I think it takes away from the type of community that Saratoga is," Linda Ambrosino said. She owns G. Willikers, a toy store on Broadway. Abrosino said she only found out about the party a few hours before it started. She said she would have opposed it had the known sooner.
"I don't think it's the type of image that we as a business community would like to portray," Ambrosino said.
Some also questioned why the party was in Saratoga.
"I don't personally approve of it," said a female Skidmore freshman, "but people can do whatever they personally want to do.
Organizers said it was only about putting a quiet town on the map and showing people a good time. Other entertainment scheduled to be at MARE in the next couple of months include a member of MTV's Jersey Shore, DJ Scribble, Kevin Rudolf, and Kim Kardashian.
TODAYSTRAT: Saratoga is hardly a "quiet town" Keep your Jersey Shore & Slutty porn star/ reality show socialites like Kim Kardashian back in Vegas where they belong..
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